Vessel handle in the form of a female bust

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Inventory number

ΕΑΜ Χ 6469

Category

Vessel attachment

Period

Archaic Period

Date

End of 6th cent. BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.08 m

Material

Bronze

Location

First Floor Case 18, Νο 11

Description
Bibliography

Vessel handle in the form of a female bust supporting a flower bud on top of her head. The woman has delicate features and wears on her head a kind of diadem or stephane. The figure’s backside is smooth and at the height of the shoulders there is a notch facilitating the adjustment on a bronze vessel. Low on her chest two nails were also used to secure her on the vessel and a small part of the rim is still attached behind her right breast. It has been suggested that this female bust might have decorated the handle of an oinochoe.

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Tarditi, C., Bronze Vessels from the Acropolis: Style and Decoration in Athenian Production between the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BC, Thiasos Monografie 7, Roma, 2016, σελ. 199-200, αρ. κατ. 6469